Improvement in candle-burners



JUMUS A. PESL Improvement in Candlesticks.- NO. 119,785. Pautented Bet.. 10, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Q

JULIUS A. PEASE, OF OATSKILL, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANDLE-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,785, dated October 10, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs A. PEAsE, of Catskill, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Candle-Burners, of which the following isa specification .Y

The nature of my invention consists in making a burner for burning a Wickless candle, the wick being in the burner and nearly stationary, giving a broad light, and requiring no snuing or trimming.

Figure l is a perspective view of the candlestick, burner, and candle. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the burner, and Fig. 3 is a top view of the burner.

A, candlestick; B, holder for candle; O, candle, D, cap that iits on the top of theeandle; E, tube for the wick; F, the wick; G, guides on burner 5 H, rods on which burner slides, I, chimney-guard or holder, J, chimney. I make my Candlestick A of any desired form, with aholder, B, for the candle. My candle O is made without a wick. I make a cap, D, that iits the top oi' the candle, in which I place my tube E, the top of said tube projecting above the top of the cap the proper distance. I use a broad Hat wick, F, the bottom or lower end of which comes in contact with the top of the candle. On said cap or burner I have guides G, through which pass two or more upright rods H, and on which said burner slides up or down, the bottom or lower .ends of said rods being fastened to the h olderor bottom of the candlestick, said rods and guides being to keep the burner in proper position as it slides down, which it does as fast as the iiame consumes the candle. I make the top of my cap or burner a little hollow to allow the melted material to run toward the center to supply the wick. My candle is made ofthe ordinary materials, but I use with the material a little kerosene-oil, to give it more illuminating power or brighter light and to give the candle the proper consistency to melt easily.

To use it, I place my candle in the holder and place the cap of the burner on its top, with the upright rods running through the guides. rIhe top of the candle is now in contact with the top of the burner and the lower end of the wick. I now light the wick, which has been previously saturated with the material of which the candle is composed, which heats the tube and top of the burner and melts the top of the candle suiliciently to supply the wick; as it is consumed the weight ofthe burner carries it down. The wick, being stationary or nearly so in the tube, will last as long as the candle, without trimming' or snui'- ing. v

On the burner is a guard, I, to hold the chimney J. It can be used without or with a chimney.

It will readily be seen that by this arrangement I can get a light equal to a keroseneeoil lamp, without the risk of explosion.

I claim as my invention- 1. The cap D, wick tube E, guides G, and chimney-holder I, combinedand operating as shown and' described.

2. The burner, as speciied, in combination with the Candlestick A and rods H, as and for the purposes described.

JULIUS A. ,PEASE Witnesses:

HIRAM C. HILL, v E. L. WETHERBY. (90) 

